I like to think of myself as a determined person, however, I don’t particularly like the discomfort, that trying can have. So, the title “Discomfort” received my attention as I want to discover why someone was saying it could be good and important to be feeling. Daniel Libman, the author, of “Discomfort” reveals how he believes in discomfort, after completing a week-long bike ride in the Rocky Mountains. The author is insightful to the ways of how being uncomfortable can end up making the goal more rewarding. A connection that I have is when I am doing a triathlon and how I am usually quite sore and tried throughout. However, as I am finishing the race and passing over the finish line, all the discomfort makes me feel even more proud of my achievement. I believe that with the discomfort that you are feeling, the end product will be more rewarding.

Ray Bradbury’s short story The Veldt is about the Hadley family and how they live in a house is completely run by machinery. Bradbury illustrates the way how the majority of humanity is headed if we continue down this path when using technology. My poem was heavily inspired of the Veldt and how technology can change the dynamics between families and friends.

I love the thrill of reading and getting transported to a different world, so when I saw the title of this essay, “The Power of Story”, I knew that it would be of great interest to me. Nathan Alling Long did an amazing job of keeping me engaged the whole time with his style of writing. Also, I like how when talking about the power of story; his writing was reflection of a past event during his childhood; showing great imagery. I was instantly reminded how as children, we have such a grand imagination and our way of coping is quite polar compared to adults. The author illustrates this when he thought that his dog was on an adventure with wolves when his dog was missing; “My wolf days are over,” Gracie seemed to say “I’m back to being a dog”. Mr. Long establishes early on in the essay that the power of stories are what can change our perspective on certain aspects of life.

This is our chart of the different combination and the amount of charge they give off.

Examine:

As we were working on finding the best combination of the pairs, we found that fur was working for the vast majority of the materials. After we finish the chart, either fur with the ebonite or the plastic spoon was the ones who gave off the strongest charge. The weakest pairs were any of the combinations with wood or aluminum, they all gave off no charge. We work very good in our group, making sure that everyone was doing their part. The timeline that we had set out, we followed quite well because we had a plan, the work was done quickly. One thing that we could of done better was being more organize on our chart.